Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.